Guess I couldn’t have picked out a more uncomfortable place to take out a piece of paper and start writing this short intro to my blog, than a very overcrowded streetcar, where I can barely move my arms to put some scribbles together. But when you get inspired you just have to go with it, might have been Elliot Smith playing on my iPod…or maybe the great surroundings (people squashed like sardines) –laughs- but I just feel like writing right now.

Anyway, I’ve been a long critic of blogs, and so-called internet spaces - I must confess-, guess I’m a bit old school you know diaries and the like, (I wonder what my friend Maie must be thinking), but when you can barely manage to stretch some minutes of your time in to badly shave your legs, you know, then, that blogs and sharing internet spaces are out of the question. But…my apprehension towards this means of expression – for lack of a better definition- has been bending to something more positive, and after thinking about it for awhile I thought I could actually get some benefit out of it. In great part, my friend Maie was the one who sort of made me look at the “brighter” side of this thing called blogs, and how they serve just fine for those who like to write, to express their ideas and just get them out of their system, so to speak.

Does it mean that with blogs are we all writers? Certainly not. And I am not trying to come across as one in any way, shape or form. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be here…I’d be like J.K Rowling making millions per book!...I am just a regular person, with a huge drive to put down in written my rambling thoughts – hence the name of my blog -, and what the heck… if not for a better reason than to vent myself I’ve decided to do this.

My thoughts are often triggered by personal events, things I see as an observer, life itself, and sometimes out of no reason at all…they just come out of the maze of my imagination. Will my friends read this? Will they find it interesting, amusing, helpful? I simply don’t know, I am not doing this targeting a specific audience or aiming anything other than my love for narratives. I hope, nonetheless, to get comments from people reading this, telling me they have either enjoyed it or even that they can relate to some of my posts or that they have laughed out of my absurdity…in the end I am here to please…NOT. (There you go for those who enjoyed Borat!)

My blog won’t be about me talking about things I’ve done on holidays with my family or friends, nothing along those lines. Not that I have anything against it, but it just ain’t my stuff; I might use something out of those experiences to start a topic, but the aim then, will be towards a narrative that can relate to a broaden audience than just to those involved in the situation itself.

I get easily carried away, so this will be it for my intro. Hope you have gotten to this very line…that will already mean a lot to this amateur.

AG